Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              tudinis pauloque minùs altitudinis. </s>
              <s id="s.013495">Reſonat
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              alia ex obliquo ibidem à muro ſepti fera­
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              rum, quem vocant Barcum, quam pulſante
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              cornu obſeruaui decem diſtinctas voces re­
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              ferre. </s>
              <s id="s.013496">Ita nihil perfectum vndequaque eſſe
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              poteſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013497">Prima referebat aptè, perfectéque ac
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              ſtatim, ſed non plura neque ſæpiùs: hæc plu­
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              ra, ſed non ſæpiùs, aut adeò promptè reddit.
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              <s id="s.013498">Tertia multiplex eſt, & in eadem vrbe, quam
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              Ticinum alij à Ticino vocant, in baſilica ma­
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              gna, vocant Salam Itali, quæ iuxta arcem ci­
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              uitatis ex oſtio toties remittit voces, vt nu­
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              merare nequeas: quandoque decimatertia
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              vox exauditur: aderant teſtes multi, & inter
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              cæteros medicæ artis profeſſor egregius,
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              Melchior Malheuſer Germanus, noſter diſ­
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              cipulus. </s>
              <s id="s.013499">Credidiſſes ab aliquo reſponderi, aut
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              deludi: emoriuntur ſenſim voces ac deſinunt:
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              vnde mirum in modum Ahime, quod ſonat
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              Latinè heu, refertur, velut morientis ac defi­
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              cientis vox. </s>
              <s id="s.013500">Quadrata hæc eſt ædes, & fene­
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              ſtris patulis pluribus, in ſuperiore parte à la­
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              teribus illuminatur. </s>
              <s id="s.013501">Cæterum frons, & pa­
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              ries ex aduerſo poſitus integri ſunt, niſi quòd
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              in fronte oſtium adeſt longitudo pedes cir­
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              citer 100. latitudo 25. fermè, altitudo (vr reor)
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              latitudine dimidio maior, eſt enim excelſa:
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              quam diligentiùs deſcribere placuit, vt ſci­
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              rent quicunque velint, vnde ratio excogitan­
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              da, exemplúmque petendum. </s>
              <s id="s.013502">Reſonat &
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              multiplex vox, ſi iuxta parietem alterum ex
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              aduerſo oſtij ſteteris, videtúrque ex ſublimi
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              tunc oſtij parte reddi. </s>
              <s id="s.013503">Itaque ex vtroque la­
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              tere, & maximè extra oſtium ipſum ſtantibus
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              vox reſonat, in medio nequaquam. </s>
              <s id="s.013504">Vnde ne­
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              mo dubitare poteſt, vel dæmonem eſſe, aut
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              ſycophantiam. </s>
              <s id="s.013505">Nam vix echo credi poteſt,
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              adeò clarè, adeò expeditè, adeò ſæpè ac ordi­
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              ne certo voces omnes exaudiuntur. </s>
              <s id="s.013506">Accepi
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              ab aſtantibus: olim ante oſtium, fornicem
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              porticus è regione poſitam fuiſſe, cuius etiam
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              magna pars ſupereſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013507">Multóque melius ſoli­
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              tas reddi voces ſtantibus extra oſtium, ſub
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              fornice, locupletiúſque ac maiore fœtore, vt
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              quæ tricies quandoque reſonarent. </s>
              <s id="s.013508">Certum
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              eſt, vt celeriùs profertur, maioréque ac con­
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              citatiore voce, ita clarius ac frequentius red­
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              di. </s>
              <s id="s.013509">Contingit autem hoc illi non ſecùs, ac in
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              multiplici imaginum reflexione. </s>
              <s id="s.013510">Ob id refle­
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              xa echo dici poteſt: quanquam obſcurior ſit
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              illius ratio. </s>
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              Auguſtini
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              Lauizarij
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              Comëlis ab
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              echo decepti
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              hiſtoria mi­
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              ra,</s>
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              Echo perfe­
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              ctæ, conditio­
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              nes.</s>
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              <s id="s.013513">Sic & alia nos, ſed alio modo, decipere ſo­
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              lent. </s>
              <s id="s.013514">Si enim echo, ſpeculáque res eſſent ra­
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              ræ, quis non admiretur, cùm non minùs hæc
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              digna ſint aliis, quæ rarò accidunt admiratio­
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              ne? </s>
              <s id="s.013515">Sed raritas ſola, admirationem parere ſo­
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              let. </s>
              <s id="s.013516">Infantem loqui, etſi nuper natum natu­
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              rale eſt, & tamen pro oſtento, quod rarum
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              ſit, & maximo ſemper
                <expan abbr="habitũ">habitum</expan>
              eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013517">Quomodo
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              autem naturale ſit, docet Ariſtoteles. </s>
              <s id="s.013518">
                <expan abbr="Nã">Nam</expan>
              cùm
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              ſermo linguę robore, & intelligentia conſtet,
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              intelligentia
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              pleriſque priùs robore lin­
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              guæ adueniat, eò fit, vt loqui
                <expan abbr="nõ">non</expan>
              abſoluta in­
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              telligentia mirum videatur. </s>
              <s id="s.013519">Et
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              ſi robur
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              linguæ priùs abſoluatur, cùm homo natura
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              ad
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              paratus ſit, qui impedit, vt au­
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              dita
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              intellecta, velut picæ, & pſittaci, non
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              referat? </s>
              <s id="s.013520">Vel quòd vt intellecta iam nixu quo­
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              dam atque concurſu ſpirituum ad linguam
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              proferat? </s>
              <s id="s.013521">Indicio eſt, quòd hoc his maximè
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              à ſomno contingit, & clarius: nam tunc per
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              ſomnum viſa, & audita magis mouent, ma­
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              iorque ſpirituum eſt copia, & lingua diutur­
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              na quiete robuſtior euaſit. </s>
              <s id="s.013522">Admiratio igitur
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              vel ob raritatem, vel ob cauſæ ignorantiam
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              contingit, vel ob vtrunque. </s>
              <s id="s.013523">Sæpius verò
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              contingit, vt raritas effectus ſit cauſa igno­
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              rantiæ cauſæ. </s>
              <s id="s.013524">Quædam verò rara ſunt, vt hæc
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              ad ſpeciem, illa ad genus: velut quod felium
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              pupilla modò nauicularis, Lunæ diuiduæ fi­
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              gura conſpicitur, aliàs verò etiam anguſtio­
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              re forma, quoniam animal hoc variè vueam
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              contrahat atque diſtendat, cornea verò tu­
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              nica in illo craſſiſſima ſit. </s>
              <s id="s.013525">Ob id maximè ſi à
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              latere eam intuearis, multiformis videtur,
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              recta verò & à fronte rotundior, vt nobis:
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              quanquam ſint, qui affirmare audeant, quod
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              etiam alibi teſtatus ſum, non horum tantùm
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              animalium, ſed & hominum pupillas pro
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              Lunæ lumine creſcere, aut diminui. </s>
              <s id="s.013526">Sed hoc
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              ad rotunditatem minimè pertinet. </s>
              <s id="s.013527">Vtvt ſit
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              diuerſitas aſpectus, multum facit ad figuræ
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              rei mutationem: nam & gemmæ longiores
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              ex angulo ſi inſpiciantur, quadratæ formæ
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              propiores videntur: quoniam nec magnitu­
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              do longiorum: ne breuiorum laterum parui­
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              tas percipi poteſt: quare confuſa ratione,
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              quæ ſolum trientem habet, procul formata
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              videtur. </s>
              <s id="s.013528">Sic autem conſtat
                <foreign lang="grc">ἀπόδειξις. </foreign>
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              <s id="s.013529">Sit
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              gemmæ quadrilateræ A B, quincuplum
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              B C, lateri ducatur ac diuidatur per
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              æqua in D, ducatur DB, & conſtituatur ocu­
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              lus in E, ducantur AE, & CE, erit igitur an­
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              gulus CDE, maior DEA, quare CD, maior
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              videbitur DA, & BC, æqualis fermè BA,
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              propior; ſcilicet quantò E, magis diſtat A, B,
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              & ſublimior eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.013530">Multa igitur cum noſtrum
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              fallant ſenſum, nobis mira videntur: vt bea­
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              tum Antonium rectè dixiſſe ferant, qui in­
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              tegris vtuntur ſenſibus, nec ipſa, quæ per li­
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              teras fit, indigere eruditione. </s>
              <s id="s.013531">Senſus ille
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              dicebat non ſolum hos internos, ſed mentem
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              ipſam ac memoriam, tum rationem. </s>
              <s id="s.013532">Mens
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              enim abſoluta à vinculis vitiorum & affecti­
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              bus, plurima cognoſcit, quæ aliis hominibus
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              mirabilia eſſe videntur. </s>
              <s id="s.013533">Ob id igitur nihil
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              mirum videri debet, ſi nocte ambulantibus
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              metus, & caſus multa oſtendant, ignes ſcili­
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              cet in cœlo, ſtellas cadentes, voragines, flam­
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              mas ſaltantes, vmbras, ſpectra, ſtrepitus in­
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              conditos, eiulatus, feras, ſerpentes, latro­
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              nes, fures, cadauera, lemures, laruas, mur­
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              mura, gemitus vexatorum, canes rabidos:
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              terrores ( vt dixi ) abſque manifeſta cauſa.
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              </s>
              <s id="s.013534">Hæc tamen, haud demonſtrant, demonas ip­
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              fos eſſe. </s>
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